On Sunday, May 13, 2012 5:12:32 AM UTC-7, William wrote: > > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Dima wrote: > > recently there was a post on sage-devel from Robert Miller (who wrote > > quite a bit of Sage code): > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/Hz9tagOntyg/CZLpRcF8XAkJ > > soliciting job applications from Sage developers. > > > > So this is an example of Sage use in industry. > > Nowhere in the message does he say that they actually use Sage. The > closest is "We do the math, using a lot of open source Python > software as well as our own secret sauce. We also make contributions > back to the tools we use, as we understand the importance of open > source." >
Well spotted! In fact it's probably hard to classify in general. The full story: we don't use Sage in production, but we use several of its components, including atlas, numpy, scipy, R. I have made extensive use of Sage in prototyping things. In fact I've actually ported some of the Python 2.7 code we have to be compatible with 2.6 so that I can import our libraries in a Sage environment. I think that Sage can be a very hard sell for sysadmin/ops type people in industry, because it is a very big install and the latest versions aren't available through debian or things like pip or easy_install. Although we here all realize that Sage Just Works, when someone in that sort of role looks at Sage as a project that might need to be installed on their production servers, they easily bristle. That's what happened at my job, so instead we are installing the pieces that we need individually (and again Sage was a big help as we consulted it a few times to fix compilation/linking issues that had already been solved in the Sage distro). -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
